This crossword No. 27772 clues and answers were published on Tue 19 Mar 2019 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27772 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
7-across – Despondent about you in France, stuck with tariff and unable to take any more : SATURATED
8-across – Call round : SHOUT
9-across – Sang loudly with band, due to being drunk : BELTEDOUT
10-across – Type of writing of period seen regularly : PROSE
12-across – Note my oddly original word : ETYMON
13-across – To want not a cent? Weird this is in both the US and Canada : LAKEERIE
14-across – Top pieces of literature in bookcases, recording and retelling yarns : LIBRARY
17-across – Habitat of Tasmanian devil, evolving with limited parts lost : SAVANNA
20-across – Capital writer, initially keen to meet aristocrat, loses head and gets kiss after a month : KARLMARX
22-across – Potentially constituent narrative ultimately lost for reader : LECTOR
24-across – Old penny dreadful seen as impenetrable : DENSE
25-across – One has bras etc in drawer! : DRAGQUEEN
26-across – Stir up novel so it ends in twist : BLEND
27-across – Cutlet of muscle core, chopped thin, zebra’s head and veal, even : SCHNITZEL
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Genius of story books : TALENT
2-down – One who buys key American book by King : CUSTOMER
3-down – Study follows paperback’s plot : GARDEN
4-down – Continuations of story speak of search for sources of water : SEQUELS
5-down – Book about gravity’s reach in translation : CHARGE
6-down – ‘Mystery novel’ in quotes : QUESTION
11-down – Vegetable in book? Radish? : OKRA
15-down – She jointly made Columbus sail and able to roam : ISABELLA
16-down – Learn from a book: note, a hardback : READ
18-down – Stories in books : ACCOUNTS
19-down – Passage from a booklet : EXTRACT
21-down – Opposed to opening, dropping, opening, dropping? : LOSING
22-down – Old story offers a clue to boot : LEGEND
23-down – Epistolary novel: badly written letters in yarns? I opt out : OLEVEL
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.